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Man charged with biting wife at Framingham hotel

A Milford woman sleeping in a Framingham hotel was awakened by her husband gnawing on her hand on Sunday, a prosecutor said Monday in Framingham District Court.

According to the MetroWest Daily News, Angel L. Santiago, 33, was arrested around 5 a.m., a half hour after the attack.

Prosecutor Wynter Lavier said in court that Santiago's wife said she was asleep at the Residence Inn on Staples Drive when she woke up with a sharp pain in her right hand. She said her husband was biting it and she could not break away.

"He was yelling while he did this, she said it wasn't words, it was like a monster," Lavier said.

The paper reported that the woman got out of the bedroom and ran into the other room where the couple's three children, two 6-year-olds and a 7-year-old slept. Santiago grabbed her hair and tried to bite her before she escaped from the room and ran to the front desk for help, the prosecutor said.

The woman was left with several bite marks on her right hand, a police report filed in court said.

When police arrived, Santiago was gone. They found him at the nearby Motel 6 on Rte. 9.

He told police that two men busted into the hotel room and tried to kidnap the children. He said the men chased him out of the room, and he ran for help, Lavier said.

When asked why his wife didn't tell him about the men, he said "she must have forgot," Lavier said.